Trickery and Truth
This is a fascinating piece about the FALSE claims that chocolate helps people lose weight, and how and why this fraud was perpetrated to make a point about the ineffectiveness of how diet related information is studied and dispensed. The words, "Play nicely, Draco," come to mind---such tactics can cost friendships and ruin trust. Please don't …
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Respect
In 1965, Otis Redding wrote the song "Respect" in which the lyrics say he will give a woman anything she wants as long as he receives "respect" when he gets home. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo3aeXZFZkg The second version, performed by Aretha Franklin debuted on Valentine's Day 1967 and was her first #1 hit. "In Redding's reading, a brawny march, he …
Quizzical: the Witch’s Heart
“Fly, my pretties, fly!” -Wicked Witch from The Wizard of Oz My sister is the one who first spotted the witch's heart where it lay burst open on the ground in the backyard of her house in Northern California. When she showed it to me, she issued a warning: "Don't get too close! It may be poisonous." I bent …
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